"I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there."

-- Ivan Illich

#Morning Quotes #Liars Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.”
“It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.”

Source : "From Disney to Dope". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2015.
“Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.”

Source : "Charlie Hebdo shooting: police release names and photos of two brothers wanted for the attack - as it happened" by Ben Doherty, Helen Davidson, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2015.
“The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not simply give it to the married people of the church, but to the whole church, just as marriage is designed not only for the benefit of the married couple. It is designed to tell a story to the entire church, a story about Godâ€™s own love and fidelity to us”
“Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.”
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”

Source : Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
“I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

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